Spez is the biggest fediverse advocate, he did something noone else managed to, popularize lemmy
(only half joking, he's really bringing a lot of people here)
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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If I had known Lemmy existed, I would have been here a couple years ago, but thanks to spez I'm here today!
(edit: fixed misspelling)
For real. Reddit has been shit since 2016, and every year it gets worse and worse. It's nice to be here, I haven't heard one mention of a Disney product since joining!
I mean I didn't even know what the fuck lemmy was nevermind that the fediverse is a thing
Just signed up to Lemmy and Kbin today. What a publicity! Cheers Spez.
Fuck spez
HOLY SMOKES. /u/spez accidentally copied the "A:" in one of his replies (it's now edited out), but someone got an archive 😂😂😂😂😂 https://archive.ph/X6EJq
Transparency completely failed
Not defending that joke of an AMA or joke of a CEO, I think it's reasonable that he'll have a few prepared answers about expected topics (accessibility in this case) and copy/paste it into the chat. Now why he still manage to answer only a dozen question is, well, a good question...
I wouldn't draw so many conclusions about an alphanumeric character and colon.
The response on accessibility though, holy shit. One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate "Accessible version/mode" of a site, or try in any way to intrusively "qualify" users as needing accessible changes before helping them. ("Are you really, TRUTHFULLY, blind???//?")
For real. That's one of the first things I learned in web design - accessibility-first, mobile-first. Accessibility is a lot easier with the use of things like aria labels and alt properties.
Not everybody can use the stairs, but everybody can use the ramp: if you're going to start off with one, then start with the ramp.
One of the early things I learned when I first coded for accessibility was to not try to make a separate “Accessible version/mode” of a site
This. It's so easy now, especially with HTML5, to make an accessible website. When I redesigned my personal website it was ridiculously easy to make it accessible, testing tab navigation, devtools accessibility checks, a screen reader and webaim's site to verify that each page was structured in a sensible way. I don't have any impairments to validate how useful these would be, but it took comparatively not much time ensuring the best effort was put forward in making the site accessible.
I can't see why Reddit, a company with people paid to work on the site and app, hasn't already done it. Empty responses such as "we can do better" and failing to engage with the communities on their platform that rely on their APIs to make Reddit accessible to all (such as those with volunteers transcribing content for blind users) just lays it bare that Reddit doesn't actually care
That's hilarious
Wait what is the A:
Copy-pasted answer which means copy-pasted question. You can draw the conclusion here.
It might be a council of other c-suites and lawyers, picking questions and forming answers, then sending them to spez to answer.
Not necessarily planted questions with prepared answers. And not necessarily generic answers to predicted questions.
Still, not a great look
Ohhhhh I see now
Question 1: Who do you think you are? Question 2: What gives you the right?
... I'm Spez.
If only there was an AMA community moderator that could help him out... oh wait they got jeolous of her populatirty and fired her.
Just made the jump to Lemmy today, feels good.
It's so nice and cosy, and comments are really interesting. I hope it won't be changed by the flood of incomming redditors.
Obligatory fuck spez
I don't know who spez is. I'm gathering from all the posts (s)he is some sort of reddit representative, and everybody hates them. Can you expand on this please?